by Drick Boyd | Dec 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again” (‘Sounds of Silence,’ Simon and Garfunkel) Advent began this past Sunday, November 29. Traditionally Advent is a time of waiting and longing for the coming of Christ both in his birth, and in the...
by Drick Boyd | Nov 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Go Set a Watchmanis Harper Lee’s recently released hidden and forgotten novel. While it is the sequel to her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill a Mockingbird, it was actually written before Mockingbird, but was not accepted for publication. Instead Lee was urged to...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, I received a shipment of my forthcoming book, White Allies in the Struggle for Racial Justice. This book is the product of nearly four years of love and labor, as I researched and then wrote the stories of 18 White Americans who joined people of color in...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.” (Source Unknown) When I heard of the tragic shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg last week, my first response was sadness, followed quickly be a sense of resignation That...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
On the first Thursday morning of every month I participate in a multi-racial, multi-faith discussion group on race called NewCORE (New Conversations on Race and Ethnicity), an organization founded eight years ago after then-Senator Barack Obama’ landmark speech...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Pope Francis at Independence Hall Like thousands of other people in Philadelphia I have been caught up in the frenzy of Pope Francis during his visit to our city. While I have not attended any of the live events, – his speech at Independence Mall, the Festival of...
